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The aging Emmet County Courthouse building in downtown Petoskey will see a $1.5 million heating and cooling overhaul later this year. The county has been slowly making capital improvements to the 1965 structure, including a new boiler and bathroom remodel in recent years. The much larger task of repairing the nearly 50-year-old heating and cooling system is slated for next summer and is expected to be a major undertaking. A $245,930 work order to begin the planning and construction services on the project was awarded to engineering firm AECOM in July for the overall job of renovating piping systems, structural, electrical and mechanical work on the project throughout the structure.

Ambulance services in Emmet County could come from a series of locations used to improve response times, based on early analysis Monday from the Emmet County Ambulance Advisory Committee. Allied EMS works out of three locations now in the Southern half of Emmet County, a primary station on M-119, one in Harbor Springs and a third in a city of Petoskey Public Works building. Northern operations by Mackinaw City based in the village itself. The locations could change in the future under a long-term improvement plan being explored by Emmet County, which would like to increase its 0.25 mill ambulance service millage in 2014 to help improvement its emergency services.

How much do you make in your job? How many hours do you work? You probably don't need a living wage calculator to tell you that a hefty hourly pay makes ends meet a lot easier. But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology combed statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Consumer Expenditure Surveys and the Department of Labor to calculate just what a person living in each county in the United States needs to make a livable wage.

The search for 13-year-old Dalton Loesch concluded on Wednesday morning after he was found near a Cross Village residence alive. According to a press release issued by the Emmet County's Sheriff's Office, “a concerned citizen observed a young male subject matching the description of Dalton, called 9-1-1 and provided aid. Deputies responded to the residence and confirmed the subject was Dalton Loesch.” Loesch declined all medical treatment,...

Another summer day, another power outage. Great Lakes Energy called in a crew to investigate and repair an electrical interruption that affected parts of Emmet and Cheboygan counties, with another outage occurring in Charlevoix County. According to Dave Guzniczak, communications director for the Boyne City-based energy cooperative, equipment failure led to the outage affecting some Emmet and Cheboygan customers. “We had a failure of an underground line, which ended up affecting - at its most - 1,500 members,” he stated of the outage, reported at 11:49 a.m. The location of the failure was not available.

The search continues Tuesday evening in the vicinity of Island View and North State roads south of Cross Village for 13-year-old Dalton Loesch, who was last seen at noon on Monday. Updated at 8:55 p.m. Tuesday The Emmet County Sheriff's Office issued a Missing Child alert, as Loesch who was last seen running into the woods a quarter mile south of Island View Road in Readmond Township. He is described as a 4-foot-8, 90-pound Hispanic male. He was last seen wearing an orange/red shirt, blue shorts, and white tennis shoes.

How many of you have found yourself having an elderly or ill family member, parent, grandparent or in-law move in with you and your family so that you can assist in their recovery or because they cannot handle living alone anymore? Taking on this responsibility is what is referred to as a sandwich generation. You are found caring for a younger generation, your dependent children, as well as your spouse and the older generation being the elderly family person. One generation is enough to handle but combining the two is a real challenge.

Emmet County staff members have some reading to do this week on new policies concerning how they will now be allowed to use medical marijuana and social media. The Emmet County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved two staff code of conduct amendments to meet insurance concerns. Social media An entirely new subsection of the Emmet County handbook to deal with social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr was instituted largely at the urging of the county's insurance provider.